Henry Kissinger Quotes
We're at a moment when the international system is in a period of change like we haven't seen for several hundred years. In some parts of the world, the nation state, on which the existing international system was based, is either giving up its traditional aspects, like in Europe, or as in the Middle East, where it was never really fully established, it is no longer the defining element. So in those two parts of the world, there is tremendous adjustment in traditional concepts.
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I have won on Honda and Yamaha so maybe it is interesting to win with a third team, Ducati, who are Italian.
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As an entrepreneur, you tend to see the opportunities where others see none.
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Awards for arts, where you make comparisons, don't make much sense.
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The niqab, for some, has become an antiestablishment symbol around which one can rally and relish in the opportunities for confrontation that it provides.
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I grew up in the '80s. I was a kid, but all my favorite movies came out of that period.
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Luck can be assisted. It is not all chance with the wise.
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Sex is a bad thing because it rumples the clothes.
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I recognized that I had a window of opportunity that had opened because of my exposure as an actor.
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You need tremendous spirituality to stop yourself falling into the abyss.
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The orthogonal features, when combined, can explode into complexity.
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If we just allowed women and men more leeway in our culture and more acceptance, I think they would be able to make better compromises.
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When I've produced a song, I try to record a vocal over it, and sometimes it becomes really hard. Sometimes I've already said a lot that I want to say within the production. The vocal is just adding to it, rather than it being a song.
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The only thing documentary filmmakers have to work with, at least the way I make films, is trust. That's been true of everyone from James Carville and George Stephanopoulos to the kids in 'American High' to the soldiers in 'Military Diaries' to Anna Wintour to Dick Cheney.
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The emperor is in the Church, not above the Church.
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I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.
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In a competitive industry, only paranoid incumbents - those constantly striving for betterment - have any hope of surviving.
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I take my Bible with me, sometimes two of them, when I travel.
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Everyone comes with dreams and illusions and promises. Everyone wants quick deals. They don't want to invest.
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A million years went by quick.
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If you are a writer or any kind of artist, if you change something as fundamental as where you live - the way you live - then I think you change the very instrument that is trying to make the art.
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I'm grateful to have gone through so many different seasons of life because without those years of searching, I'd still have no idea who I am and what Andrew Ripp really has to say.
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They that are intoxicated by self-conceit have interposed themselves between it and the Divine and infallible Physician. Witness how they have entangled all men, themselves included, in the mesh of their devices. They can neither discover the cause of the disease, nor have they any knowledge of the remedy.
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We're at a moment when the international system is in a period of change like we haven't seen for several hundred years. In some parts of the world, the nation state, on which the existing international system was based, is either giving up its traditional aspects, like in Europe, or as in the Middle East, where it was never really fully established, it is no longer the defining element. So in those two parts of the world, there is tremendous adjustment in traditional concepts.
